Stories of Ciutat carved in stone
Sergio Úbeda. Palma. Photos: Piter Castillo The streets of Palma hide fascinating tales, stories that have endured through the centuries, not only in words, but also sculpted in stones. Sculptural figures scattered throughout the city [...]
Fernando Gómez: “Palma is on a par with Madrid and Barcelona in the art scene”
"I have never approached culture as a political battle" Sergio Úbeda. Palma. Photos: Piter Castillo Fernando Gómez de la Cuesta, coordinator of Culture and Tourism at Palma City Council, welcomes us to talk about his [...]
Fires i festes (fairs and festivals) in Mallorca for this 2025
This 2025, Mallorca Global Mag brings you a selection of must-see fires i festes on the island so you won’t miss a single event. We begin with San Sebastián, patron saint of Palma, celebrated every [...]
Global People: residents of Mallorca from all corners of the world
Citizens from all over the world arrive in Mallorca and end up putting down roots on the island. A global community living together in Mallorca, where there is an ever-increasing mix of cultures and nationalities. [...]
Francesc Antich i Oliver, twice president of the Govern dies
Francesc Antich passed away last night after a two-year fight against cancer. In an official statement, the president of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Margalida Prohens, and the other members of the executive have [...]
Mallorca is not longer what it used to be…
I still remember those years when driving around the island was a continuous traffic jam. And I remember it without any nostalgia... Once again, I have overslept. What a week I'm having. And thank goodness [...]
Tourists spent 15,259 million up to September, an all-time record on the islands
Until last September, the Balearic Islands accumulated the highest tourist expenditure in its history. Tourists spent 15,259 million euros in the first nine months of the year, as shown by the Tourism Expenditure Survey (Egatur) [...]
Carmen Linares: “From Rosalía I value the young people that she has attracted to flamenco”
The cantaora (flamenco singer) Carmen Linares, winner of the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, opens the Jazz Voyeur Festival at the Trui Teatre on 4 November. More than four decades of artistic [...]
The Government plans to limit the sale of homes to foreigners
To open the debate on limiting the sale of homes to foreigners. This is one of the objectives of the Balearic government. The Councillor for Economic Model, Tourism and Employment, Iago Negueruela, declared in Parliament [...]
Nit de les Ànimes 2022 in Palma: a programme to recover the local tradition
The Nit de les Ànimes 2022 in Palma will be held in Sa Riera Park on Saturday the 5th of November. This is the sixth edition of the festival that aims to promote and recover [...]
Logitravel to promote Palma as the “perfect getaway” during the low season
The company Logitravel will be responsible for developing the tourism comarketing aimed at the national market from the 1st of November to the 15th of December. The aim of this action is to improve the [...]
A new circular bus line in Palma will connect the Palacio de Congresos with Plaza Progreso
A new circular bus line will link the Palacio de Congresos with Palma's Plaza Progreso. This is the EMT's first circular line that will connect the neighbourhoods located beyond the avenues. These are some of [...]
Port d’Alcúdia launches tests of the system for alerting the population of emergencies
The population of the Port d'Alcúdia area will receive a simulated message on their mobile phones this Wednesday at 12:00 noon. In this way, the Balearic Islands will test the new system of alerts to [...]
Celebrities turn out in defence of El Bungalow ahead of Sunday’s protest
Many familiar faces have shown their support for the restaurant El Bungalow in Ciudad Jardín, which Costas intends to demolish, through a video. This support is expected to be massive this Sunday, November 6th, [...]
The Consell de Govern approves the highest budgets in history
The Consell de Govern has approved the General Budget Bill of the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands for 2023 for a total of 7,133.4 million euros. The new budgets increase by 11.5% compared to [...]
The train to Llevant, housing and the water cycle will be the focus of the eco-tax investments in Mallorca
The investment of the Sustainable Tourism Tax in Mallorca resulting from the 2023 call will have a total impact of 99.18 million euros, between its own projects and others that affect all the islands. Among [...]
Tourists call Formentor restrictions a “trap” after receiving fine
"A tourist trap", "a joke" or "is this legal? These are the comments of dozens of tourists who visited Mallorca this summer and who now, on their return, receive a souvenir in the form of [...]
Miquel Barceló exhibits his work at the Louvre in Paris
The Mallorcan artist Miquel Barceló is currently exhibiting his works in Paris. He is doing it twice, with the still life "Grisaille à l'espadon" at the Louvre and with a series of "Grisaille" in a [...]
Palma will compete to host the Spanish Artificial Intelligence headquarters
Palma will compete to host the headquarters of the future Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA). This is what the President of the Govern, Francina Armengol, told the Secretary of State Carme [...]
Direct flights from Ibiza to Menorca: new route on weekends
The airline UEPfly has presented its new direct flights from Ibiza to Menorca. A connection that will connect the two islands non-stop at weekends. This is a highly demanded service that will cover this inter-island [...]
Impulsa Balears predicts moderate growth, but above the Spanish average
Impulsa Balears yesterday held the i-meeting "Global conditioning factors and pendular movements: protagonists of the macroeconomic scenario". According to its technical director, Antoni Riera, the Balearic Islands will ease its growth but, predictably, without going [...]
Halloween in Mallorca 2022: plans for the celebration of the Nit de Ses Ànimes
Many proposals have been announced to celebrate Halloween in Mallorca 2022. The Nit de Ses Ànimes, which is celebrated on the night of 31st October, is an increasingly popular date. That is why, year after [...]
Terraferida warns of the construction of 1,002 villas on rural land in the last 6 years
In the last six years, 1,002 new villas have been built in the rural land of Mallorca and up to 1,052 more homes have been extended between 2015 and 2021. This is revealed by a [...]
Actress Natassja Kinski receives today the Mallorca Film Award
Natassja Kinski will be one of the stars of the opening gala of the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival today. The actress will receive the Mallorca Film Award during the gala, after appearing before the [...]
75% of the turtles rescued this year in the archipelago were entangled in plastic
The Balearic Islands Wildlife Recovery Consortium (COFIB) today released five sea turtles that have been recovered over the last few months at the Palma Aquarium. Four of the five turtles were found entangled in plastic [...]
Carolina Artola, energy advisor: “The key to paying less is to know the price per kilowatt”
Carolina Artola is an energy advisor, a relatively new profession "that existed for companies, but not for residential customers, i.e. supplies with power of less than 10 kilowatts". Her function is to act as an [...]
The Balearic Islands leads the national occupancy rate in September
In September, the Balearic Islands registered one out of every three overnight stays by foreigners in Spain during the month of September, with 33.7% of the total. This is shown in the hotel occupancy data [...]
The Pollença Town Council decrees a halt to the works at the Hotel Formentor
Pollença Town Council has decreed an immediate halt to the works on the Hotel Formentor. The announcement was made by the environmental group GOB, which claims that the council has proved them right "regarding the [...]
Palma will freeze taxes, with the exception of IBI for large landowners
The mayor of Palma, José Hila, announced in his speech on the state of the city that the City Council will freeze taxes. With the exception of the IBI for large property owners, those with [...]
Open House Palma receives 13,000 visits in its second edition
The architecture festival for non-architects Open House Palma opened the doors of 68 buildings in Palma to the public this weekend. In total, Open House Palma registered around 13,000 visits to buildings, including 6,500 on [...]
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